Activity Bar width in Visual Studio Code
Not solving your exact question but another good solution...
- Install the Customize UI extension.
- In
Settings (UI)
go to the Customize UI settings and setActivity Bar
to"bottom"
. - Completely close VSCode and reopen.
I recommend the excellent extension Activitus Bar. It recreate the activity bar buttons on the status bar:
Then, you just hide this enormous, gigantic activity bar. Happying code!
EDIT (03/03/20): You can also use the customize-ui addon that allows more fine-grained font sizes and other goodies
You can also use the negative zoom trick in settings.json
:
{
"window.zoomLevel": -1,
"editor.fontSize": 13,
"terminal.integrated.fontSize": 16,
}
The whole editor will get smaller so you need to compensate editor.fontSize
and terminal.integrated.fontSize
This allows for smaller activity bar (unfortunately it acts on everything (icons size, font-size ...)) but I much prefer this than the defaults.